File not being deleted from SPIFFS of ESP32-S3 (IDFGH-12493)

[abhinav-embrill]

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General issue report

I am using ESP32-S3 and I am transferring an image captured by camera through UART. If the image is not transmitted it gets deleted from the SPIFFS using 'remove(file_path)' and 'unlink(file_path)'. But my problem is that the image is not being removed from the SPIFFS. Why?

[haberturdeur]

Hi, thank you for the report.
When you remove the file is the file is still accessible using open()?
If it isn't and just "takes up space", it is a documented behavior, please see: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/api-reference/storage/spiffs.html#notes (6th bullet point)

[Alvin1Zhang]

Thanks for reporting, will close due to inactivity, feel free to reopen with more updates.